now at noon -- two chp officers are ties to the bay area are being remembered right now after losing their lives in the line of duty this last week. a deadly street race claims the life of an innocent driver. what investigators say one racer did. and a self-proclaimed leukemia flair celebrates a milestone in the bay area. what the 12-year-old said he's looking forward to the most.

[bagpipes] they died while responding to help others in distress. highway officers, juan gonzalez and brian law are being honored at this hour in the central valley. both officers worked here in the bay area before transferring to the fresno area where they made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. the save mart center on the campus of fresno state university was killed this morning with family members, friends and officers from around the state. governor jerry brown was also there. officers law and gonzalez were killed last monday when their patrol car crashed in kingsburg. they were headed to a traffic accident. >> it's with a heavy heart that i stand before you today as we honor the lives and careers of california highway patrol officers brian law and juan gonzalez. these men were more than just

miracle workers to one another. they were classmates, graveyard partners and close friends. >> a very emotional part of the service came when the chp dispatcher announced the officers' end of watch. >> negative response from officer brian law. 18986. end of watch february 17th, 2014. negative response from officer juan gonzalez february 17th, 2014. your sacrifice to the people you serve will anotherrer -- will never be forgotten. fairfield police are searching this afternoon for a driver who they say took part in a street race that ended with a deadly crash. as alex savidge tells us, it was an innocent driver who was killed in the accident. >> reporter: the man behind the wheel of this crumpled mazda died after being caught in the middle of a dangerous street race. the crash happened after 5:00

last night on lopes road near calian hills drive. fairfield police say a car and truck were racing each other. the car slammed into that innocent driver, the truck left the scene. neighbors rushed in to help the man in that mazda. >> i ran over and tried to assist in helping him, making sure he was staying with us. as his pulse was dropping down, i told the other gentleman that he was -- we were losing him. >> reporter: the driver who was killed was leaving this neighborhood and was making a left turn onto lopes. that's when he was t-boned by that speeding car. people who live nearby say leaving this left-hand turn can be a harrowing experience. >> you have to be careful leaving here making sure you have time to make a left because people do speed here. >> reporter: we witnessed a close call at this intersection with two cars nearly colliding.

neighbors say last night's cash is a reminder. along with the man killed, the driver of the car that hit him was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the search is on for the second driver involved in this deadly street case. that person was behind the wheel of a black toyota tundra pickup and took off after this violent crash. alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. we have some breaking news right now in san francisco. as you can see from these live pictures, there is smoke. we understand it is coming from the intersection near upton and mckinnon in san francisco and that is the only location we have at this time. the newschopper2, ktvu newschopper2, is on the way to this. but right now, as you can see, a lot of black smoke. that usually means there is an active fire underway in san francisco near upton and mckicken. as soon as we get any more

information on this story, we'll bring that to you. concord police are looking for three men they say forced their way into a home, taped up a boy and his grandmother and then robbed them. this happened at 3:15 yesterday afternoon on via doble near pine middle school. after the men left, the boy managed to escape and ran for help at the house of this neighbor who happens to be mark desaulnier. >> he was sort of in a state of shock when i was walking to him. he started to calm down once the police got here. when i came out, he was obviously very upset. >> the three suspects are described as hispanic between the ages of 19 and 30. one had a short buzz cut with a birth mark above his upper lip. two were armed with handguns. police are looking into what was stolen into the home. firefighters in berkeley are shocked while one of their

own was killed in an accident while off-duty. >> reporter: tony nunes's coat hangs from station 7 in the berkeley hills. the flag flies at half staff. i'm out here today to acknowledge our departments and the city's loss of one of our finest firefighters, tony nunes, who was tragically killed last night in an off- duty accident. >> reporter: 54-year-old nunes was killed on his ranch last night near martinez when his tract ter tumbled 200 feet and rolled crushing him. a procession of firefighters and other crews escorted his body to the coroner's office. >> today would have been tony's anniversary with the department. >> reporter: firefighters were up until 3:00 this morning at the firehouse talking about how nunes touched count les life -- countless lives. >> tony was the guy that made everybody laugh. the thing that lit him up most

was the joy giving tours to kids. >> reporter: he was popular among neighbors. >> very sad to hear about them losing one of their own. i'm sorry to hear that. >> reporter: while nunes worked for berkeley's fire department, his brother and -- his father and three brothers worked with other departments. >> we deal with life-and-death situations on a daily basis. it's harder for us when it's one of your own. i also feel for the contra costa fire department out there trying to rescue knowing it was one of your brothers. >> reporter: nunes leaves behind one daughter. they say station 7 will never be the same without him. the dalai lama just finished speaking at a soldout crowd about what he calls basic

human values. janine de la vega joins us live to explain his message and why he was treated by dozens of protesters. janine? >> reporter: tori, this was the first time the dalai lama came here to the santa clara university campus and it was very exciting for many of the people in the crowd who called this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. thent chaing of tib bitten -- the chanting of tibetan monks greeted the dalai lama. >> hello. good morning. >> reporter: the spiritual leader received a standing ovation and as he sat down, he was given a santa clara university visor by the president of the university which he immediately put on. [ applause ] >> reporter: he was here to speak about compassion, business and ethickings. the 89 -- ethics.

the 78-year-old talked about peace, happiness. >> we need special effort to educate people, remind people. >> reporter: the crowd hung onto every word of the spiritual leader wanting to hear his message for hope and the need for coolration. >> i believe in world peace and the whole thing. just to hear how he approaches it. this one is a lot about compassion. >> reporter: outside a group of demonstrators were protesting. they practiced a form of worship and are accusing the dalai lama of religious persecution for forbidding their form of worship. >> he's created a band in the buddhist community. and he's engaged in that for half of his life. >> reporter: he had a dialogue of the ceo of dignity health, one of the largest healthcare systems and he spoke about how

medical research shows how a person's health improved with happiness. >> creates such confidence. >> reporter: there is another private event happening later this afternoon. the dalai lama is meeting with academic and silicon valley business leaders to discuss research, religion and business. that event is closed to the public. janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you, janine. mark leno is proposing legislation to change the ellis act. that's the state law that allows landlords to get out of the rental business. flanked by city officials this morning, leno said speck speculators are use -- speculators are using this to buy buildings and evict long- term tenants who are protected

by rent control. mayor ed lee supports the legislation. >> when you buy property solely to evict long-term tenants and to flip those at extraordinary prices, that's the wrong message. that's not what the ellis act is created for. that's the opposite of our values in this city. >> lee and leno say a number of ellis act evictions has tripped -- tripled in the past year. they say leno's bill would further hurt owners by restricting property rights. harold ramos has died. he passed away this morning in his chicago home surrounded by family and friends. he was 69 years old. in 2010, the actor was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that causes swelling in the blood vessels. he made his hollywood break through in 1978 when he co- wrote "animal house." he's survived by his wife,

three children and two grandchildren. a uc student said she was gang raped and beaten this weekend. who police are looking for and the popular location where the attack occurred. >> it's a beautiful day around the bare but it's all about -- around the bay area but it's all about to change. rosemary will be here to tell you when the cool and wet weather is expected. and a 12-year-old is now celebrating a major milestone. what the self-proclaimed leukemia flair is doing today to help others. and back to our breaking news, this plume of black smoke is urabouting in the -- burning in the bayview district and we understand it's burning near an auto district.

want to go back to our breaking news in san francisco. once again, live pictures of a large, tall plume of black smoke. this is now a three-alarm fire that is burning at upton and mckinnon in san francisco. it's an industrial area of san francisco in the bayview district and this fire has been burning for about 20 minutes or so. we're not sure exactly what is

burning at this point but we do have a crew on the way and right now, we have ktvu's tara moriarty on the phone with us right now. tara, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, i'm actually driving through the streets right now, sort of trying to get away from the fire. it's absolutely enormous. the billowing cloud of black smoke can be seen for miles. i actually spotted it on my way 101 southbound, and when i got a little close to the fire, i don't know if you have that video yet, i shot some video off my cell phone. but there were threes loud crackling noises. there's something very combustible in the warehouse. this is sort of like an industrial area. we're near mckinnon. i can't get a cross because, again, i'm driving but there is a lot of people that are being told to leave the area, a lot of fire crews here on scene. they were actually pulling up after i arrived. so they keep sending more and more. i haven't had a chance to talk

with an official. a couple of police are cordoning off certain streets because they need to drag the hose lines, connect to the fire hydrants. so people are being told to stay out of the area. this one is coming in. it's really ripping. it's very black smoke that you can see. a lot of flames and it appears that they are attacking this fire from all ends, from all -- from all parts of the block here. but people in the neighborhood are a bit freaked out, i have to say because the popping noises that you can hear from the fire are so intense, it was quite scary. everybody kind of going in all at once to take pictures off their cell phone cameras backed off once they heard the loud booms. >> that certainly is probably the best idea, to try to stay away. so i'm looking at the map here, tara, on my computer and we're again looking at a live picture of this large black plume of

smoke. it looks like this is between 101 and 280 but you say it's a pretty industrial area. i'm sure it's visible from the freeway. >> reporter: yes, it is. i was driving home. just got off my shift and -- i'm -- i had gotten off the freeway to check it out and as i pulled up -- actually, there's still fire crews arriving on scene, and a lot of people who live in the area and who work in this area are leaving right now. they are being told to get out. they don't know what was burning. but some firefighters did mention there was some sort of a taxicab company located where the fire is as well as some sort of academy, academy of sciences or something like that that they were mentioning, academy of arts, some sort of school. so i will try to get more information. i do have a police officer here

on scene and he's telling me to leave right now. as you can imagine, it's a very chaotic scene. i can see an ambulance and several police officers and they are really blocking off a lot of -- a lot of blocks are -- they are telling people to vecket and and -- to evacuate and get out of here. it's that dark, smack smoke, which suggests some sort of plastic or rubber, something like that, is burning. i can't smell it from where i am but i can definitely see it. >> all right. we'll let you go to try to gather information for us, tara, and see what you can find out to find out where this is bumping. but black smoke would indicate it's still actively bumping at

this point and with a huge response, a lot of firefighters and police gathering on the scene to try to put this fire out. but tara saying this fire is really going. it's at least three alarms by this point. this is new video -- i'm just pausing so we can listen a little bit. you can hear some of that crackling noise that tara was telling us about. i believe this is video that tara sent to us just a short time ago. you can see how black the smoke is and just billowing up from the scene. it looks like a large fire. what was interesting, tara, she like a lot of people were running toward the fire to try to see what's going on. when a lot of people heard the crackling noise and it sounded like a possible explosion, a lot of people turned around and tried to run away from it and that's exactly what people are being advised to do, leave the area. a very large response. we saw some of the fire trucks

pulling up there and arriving at the scene. again, we understand this is at upton street and mckinnon avenue in the bayview district of san francisco. the google map says there's a national cab nearby, a traffic supply company, a metal -- a metal products company. so again, rather an industrial area, quite a few businesses that could potentially have some dangerous items if they were to go up in flames. so we are again gathering more information and -- this -- okay. this is from newschopper2 that is flying to the scene right now. this is stillaways a way but you can still -- this is still aways away but you can still see it. not sure if rosemary can join us and tell us about the winds. >> the winds are generally

light which from this point looks good because it looks like the winds or the smoke going straight up, not blowing over lower levels of the city or that area. but as you get up higher, you can see there may be a weakened version in place. that's why -- it looks like 2,000 feet, 3,000 feet up. it looks like we see it flatten out and move. so the wind carrying it a little bit. but overall, it looks like a variable wind, a light wind which from this point looks actually like it's a positive thing because we don't have that smoke blowing over the lower levels of where people are living, tori. >> all right. and we have a message into the bay area air quality district to find out what exactly this is gonna do for air quality in the bay area. but as rosemary said, light wind at this point.

a three-alarm fire burning in an industrial area in bayview. we have a reporter on the scene. we will have more information right after this. we'll be back with the news at noon in just a moment. lucky charms!

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we want to to go back to our breaking news right no in san francisco. a three-alarm fire is burning.

david stevenson has more. >> reporter: you can see the smoke billowing out from the site of an auto body shop in the bayview district. it went from a two-alarm to a three-alarm fire. that means there are more than 100 firefighters on the scene. there are a lot of industrial warehouses in the area. some of them in the immediate area have been convicted but there are -- evacuated. we were driving 15 miles away and we could see the smoke billowing almost like a volcano, plumes of black smoke. the fire department has said this is being called a defensive fire, meaning rather than trying to put it out, it's a dangerous situation, they are trying to to it from the

outside. we heard presumably flammable material. you can see a firefighter perched high above the fire on a ladder. we're not seeing any flames. again, all of this smoke pillowing out. there are people -- bim lowing out -- billowing out. there are people told to evacuate and take care. again, a very active scene right now, tori. we'll be going around trying to catch up with the fire department trying to see if there's been any injuries. thus far we don't know of any. you can see them putting water on that from above, from a distance trying to put out this auto body shop fire at this hour. for now, reporting live, tori, we'll head back to you and try to gather more information. >> all right. thank you. i was gonna ask about possible cause and injury. david is gonna try to work on that. great shot from newschopper2. you get a sense of just how large this building is. as david said, they are attacking it defensively trying

to attack it from the outside. you can see the large plumes of smoke from the ladders. tara moriarty was on the scene. saw this driving by and joins us live by phone to let us know how people in the area are dealing with all of this situation. tara? >> reporter: yeah, you know, it appears that they are really getting the upper hand on the fire at this point. when i first arrived, this smoke was completely black and now it's white. that would indicate that they are making progress here and you can see them -- fresh my perspective, i think i'm standing on the back side of where david stevenson is. here's mark gonzalez with the fire department. >> okay. >> reporter: he's talking right now with some of the chiefs on scene to try to figure out what the status is of the fire. sounds like he's -- he's talking with the chief, actually, on the phone right now. he said it looked like everything is getting under control anyway.

from where we're standing, we can see about two ladder trucks spraying water. there were some flames that i could see from my vantage point. right now, it's -- i can still see the flames. it appears that they are making progress. hold on one second here. i'm gonna talk to mark and find out exactly what's going on here. can you tell us about what's going on here? >> reporter: it looks like it's getting better -- it's an auto body shop? >> yes. crews are doing a good job. all members are okay. there's no information if anybody was in the shop. >> reporter: okay. thank you. that was mark gonzalez one of the deputy chiefs here at the

fire. it's dissipated a little bit. when those explosions were going off, it was pretty intense. a lot of the people have gathered around to watch the fire and it went -- we're taking a step back and thinking, you know? this is not a safe situation for me to be in. back to you. >> tara moriarty there for us on the scene. getting direct word that mark gonzalez is getting better and as tara has been pointing out, you can see these pictures from live -- live pictures from newschopper2. they are getting a lot of water on the fire. so the smoke has turned from really dark black to kind of a lighter gray which indicates they are making progress. you can still see some smoke pouring out from every little outlet and the windows and what used to be the roof, obviously, no longer there. and we did hear from a couple of people, david stevenson and also the